MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - The Keene State College baseball team dropped a 5-0 decision to seventh-ranked Salve Regina University in the opening round of the 2025 NCAA Division III Championship Tournament Friday, hosted by Penn State Harrisburg.
 
The Seahawks (33-7) saw Brayden Clark and Nolan Romanowski combine for a four-hit shutout in the game. Clark fanned six batters to just a single walk over the first eight innings, while Romanowski fanned two of the three batters he faced in the ninth. Clark improved to 11-2 on the hill with the decision.
 
Salve scored the only run it would need in the bottom of the first when an error by second-baseman Luke Anderson allowed Brandon Grover to score from second. The Seahawks added single runs in the second, third, fifth and seventh innings, with Grover capping the scoring with a solo blast to right.
 
Grover was 3-for-4 with four runs scored from the leadoff spot in the lineup, while Christian Homa was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. They accounted for five of the team’s six hits in the contest.
 
Anderson accounted for two of the Owls’ (25-16) four hits in the game, coming up with two singles in his three at-bats. Camden Thomas took the loss on the hill, allowing four runs (two earned) on five hits and three walks over six innings, dropping his record to 5-3.
 
The next opponent for both teams is yet to be determined. The second game of the regional between host Penn State Harrisburg ad The College of New Jersey was suspended due to rain with PSU leading 8-2 in the bottom of the fourth. That game will resume Saturday at 8:30 a.m.